A heartless former journalist who became a member of the dreaded terrorist group, Al Shabaab has been executed in Somali by a firing squad.
Hassan Hanafi was killed for brutally murdering innocent journalists
This is the moment a terrorist convicted of murdering five journalists was tied to a wooden post before being executed by a Somali firing squad.
According to Dailymail, Hassan Hanafi, a former media officer for the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab, was tied up at a police academy square in the capital Mogadishu today before being shot.
Hanafi was sentenced to death by military judges in March having been extradited from Kenya a year ago following his arrest in 2014. Hanafi, whose head was covered with a white sheet before he was killed, was widely known for arranging news conferences in the years when the militants controlled the city.
The al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab was pushed out of Mogadishu by African Union peacekeeping forces in 2011 but has remained a potent antagonist in Somalia, launching frequent attacks in its bid to overthrow the Western-backed government.
Hanafi, 30, had said he joined al Shabaab in 2008 when he was working as a journalist for a local Somali broadcaster. He was arrested in neighbouring Kenya last year and then returned to Somalia for trial.
He had been promoted to commander in 2009. The following year, he was seriously injured in fighting.
'Al Shabaab killed many journalists but personally I killed only one,' Hanafi said after the sentence was announced. 'But I am indifferent if you kill me. You will see if killings will stop even after my death.'
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